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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly%20meeting%202019.08.13/near/173129956" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly.20meeting.202019.2E08.2E13.html#173129956">(Aug 13 2019 at 16:46)</a>:</h4>
<p>Hey <span class="user-group-mention" data-user-group-id="1172">@WG-async-foundations</span> -- we having a book meeting? Sorry I'm late.</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly%20meeting%202019.08.13/near/173129969" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly.20meeting.202019.2E08.2E13.html#173129969">(Aug 13 2019 at 16:46)</a>:</h4>
<p>I've kind of lost track of the status of the book =)</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly%20meeting%202019.08.13/near/173130171" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Florian Gilcher <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly.20meeting.202019.2E08.2E13.html#173130171">(Aug 13 2019 at 16:49)</a>:</h4>
<p>I've got a question. Do we really want to open a book on the new shiny feature like this? :) <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/async-book/01_getting_started/03_state_of_async_rust.html" target="_blank" title="https://rust-lang.github.io/async-book/01_getting_started/03_state_of_async_rust.html">https://rust-lang.github.io/async-book/01_getting_started/03_state_of_async_rust.html</a></p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly%20meeting%202019.08.13/near/173130181" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Florian Gilcher <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly.20meeting.202019.2E08.2E13.html#173130181">(Aug 13 2019 at 16:49)</a>:</h4>
<p>It's pretty heavy on the negatives</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly%20meeting%202019.08.13/near/173130252" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Florian Gilcher <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly.20meeting.202019.2E08.2E13.html#173130252">(Aug 13 2019 at 16:50)</a>:</h4>
<p>I appreciate the need for honesty, but reading it, it mainly feels like "this is an alpha feature we stabilised"</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly%20meeting%202019.08.13/near/173130285" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly.20meeting.202019.2E08.2E13.html#173130285">(Aug 13 2019 at 16:51)</a>:</h4>
<p>Heh</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly%20meeting%202019.08.13/near/173130296" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly.20meeting.202019.2E08.2E13.html#173130296">(Aug 13 2019 at 16:51)</a>:</h4>
<p>In general I would still like to adust some of the <em>ordering</em> of the book; but my branch kind of bitrotted away</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly%20meeting%202019.08.13/near/173130312" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly.20meeting.202019.2E08.2E13.html#173130312">(Aug 13 2019 at 16:51)</a>:</h4>
<p>I might try to re-do it now that we have a setup (I think?) that isn't based on strict line numbers etc, that made it extra hard to do</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly%20meeting%202019.08.13/near/173130365" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly.20meeting.202019.2E08.2E13.html#173130365">(Aug 13 2019 at 16:52)</a>:</h4>
<p><span class="user-mention" data-user-id="215333">@Florian Gilcher</span> I think a PR adjusting the opening to be a bit "sunnier" wouldn't be amiss :)</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly%20meeting%202019.08.13/near/173130384" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Florian Gilcher <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly.20meeting.202019.2E08.2E13.html#173130384">(Aug 13 2019 at 16:52)</a>:</h4>
<p><span aria-label="+1" class="emoji emoji-1f44d" role="img" title="+1">:+1:</span></p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly%20meeting%202019.08.13/near/173130490" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly.20meeting.202019.2E08.2E13.html#173130490">(Aug 13 2019 at 16:54)</a>:</h4>
<p>I'm looking over the <a href="https://github.com/rust-lang/async-book/issues" target="_blank" title="https://github.com/rust-lang/async-book/issues">list of issues on the book</a></p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly%20meeting%202019.08.13/near/173130522" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly.20meeting.202019.2E08.2E13.html#173130522">(Aug 13 2019 at 16:54)</a>:</h4>
<p>there's not much there -- <span class="user-mention" data-user-id="215333">@Florian Gilcher</span> maybe file an issue regarding intro? do you think you will try to do a rewrite (or find someone to do so?)</p>
<p><span class="user-mention" data-user-id="127859">@Taylor Cramer</span> are you working on the "surprisingly hard things"?</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly%20meeting%202019.08.13/near/173130699" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Taylor Cramer <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly.20meeting.202019.2E08.2E13.html#173130699">(Aug 13 2019 at 16:57)</a>:</h4>
<p>Uh, not sure where my response went</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly%20meeting%202019.08.13/near/173130708" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Taylor Cramer <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly.20meeting.202019.2E08.2E13.html#173130708">(Aug 13 2019 at 16:57)</a>:</h4>
<p>yes, I am</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly%20meeting%202019.08.13/near/173130722" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Taylor Cramer <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly.20meeting.202019.2E08.2E13.html#173130722">(Aug 13 2019 at 16:57)</a>:</h4>
<p>although I had prioritized the select/join stuff over it, so I didn't do it last week</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly%20meeting%202019.08.13/near/173130821" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly.20meeting.202019.2E08.2E13.html#173130821">(Aug 13 2019 at 16:58)</a>:</h4>
<p>ok.</p>



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<p>(Reminder that if y'all want proof readers you should feel free to cc me. =P)</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly%20meeting%202019.08.13/near/173130907" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly.20meeting.202019.2E08.2E13.html#173130907">(Aug 13 2019 at 16:59)</a>:</h4>
<p>i18N support, neat :) <a href="https://github.com/rust-lang/async-book/issues/26" target="_blank" title="https://github.com/rust-lang/async-book/issues/26">https://github.com/rust-lang/async-book/issues/26</a></p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly%20meeting%202019.08.13/near/173130987" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> centril <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly.20meeting.202019.2E08.2E13.html#173130987">(Aug 13 2019 at 17:00)</a>:</h4>
<p>(cc <span class="user-mention" data-user-id="132040">@Manish Goregaokar</span> ^---)</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly%20meeting%202019.08.13/near/173141848" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Tom Phinney <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/201246-wg-async-foundations/book/topic/weekly.20meeting.202019.2E08.2E13.html#173141848">(Aug 13 2019 at 19:09)</a>:</h4>
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<p>(Reminder that if y'all want proof readers you should feel free to cc me. =P)</p>
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<p>Me too. I've been a semi-professional (i.e., paid but part-time) proofreader since 1962, including thousands of pages of IEEE and IEC standards. (FYI, I accidentally ended up as the final editor for the pre-publication draft of the initial IEEE 802.11 (WiFi) standard.)</p>



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